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Kwaidan Blu-Ray

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: Blu-ray
Year: 1965
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Genre: Drama
Cast: Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiko Kishi, Jun Hamamura, Yuko Mochizuki, Katsuo Nakamura, Tetsuro Tanba, Takashi Shimura, Kunie Tanaka, Kanemon Nakamura, Noboru Nakaya, Osamu Takizawa, Haruko Sugimura, Ganjiro Nakamura
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Language: Japanese
Release Date: 2015-10-20
Description
After more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously crafted. This version of Kwaidan is the original three-hour cut, never before released in the United States.